WordPress Trac: Ticket #10028: Trackbacks from Serendipity don't work out of the boxhttps://core.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/10028
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With some Serendipity blogs the trackbacks havn't work for a long time. As I hope that there will be standards to interact between diffeent blog systems one day, I wrote an article today about this topic.
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One s9y linked to me, but as usual the trackback didn't work. After researching a bit I found out, that it works if the post includes the rdf-data.
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Now I put the command
trackback_rdf()
into the single.php of the theme and since then it is working.
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I hav't expected that, I tought a function like that has to be inside the core code.
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I mean it ist wrong that the themes have to take care for that.
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Trac 1.0.1Denis-de-BernardyThu, 04 Jun 2009 06:26:58 GMTtype, milestone changedhttps://core.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/10028#comment:1
https://core.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/10028#comment:1
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changed from <em>defect (bug)</em> to <em>enhancement</em>
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<li><strong>milestone</strong>
changed from <em>Unassigned</em> to <em>Future Release</em>
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TicketuteleThu, 04 Jun 2009 08:04:52 GMTtype changedhttps://core.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/10028#comment:2
https://core.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/10028#comment:2
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<li><strong>type</strong>
changed from <em>enhancement</em> to <em>defect (bug)</em>
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Replying to <a class="closed" href="https://core.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/10028#comment:1" title="Comment 1 for Ticket #10028">Denis-de-Bernardy</a>:
I thought it works with the additional trackback-command, but it does not work in every case.
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Just today I did not receive a trackback from a serendipity blog despite there exists a link to the post.
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Therefore I think it is not an enhancement it is a bug.
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TicketDenis-de-BernardyThu, 04 Jun 2009 08:42:28 GMThttps://core.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/10028#comment:3
https://core.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/10028#comment:3
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Just for reference in case someone wants to write a patch:
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<pre class="wiki">if ( is_singular() ) {
setup_postdata($wp_the_query-&gt;get_queried_object());
if ( pings_open() )
add_action('wp_head', 'add_trackback_rdf');
}
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Where add_trackback_rdf() wraps trackback_rdf() into a comment block.
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That way, the rdf is in the &lt;head&gt; area, in case auto-discovery only scans the target page's first couple of lines.
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TicketuteleThu, 04 Jun 2009 21:25:06 GMThttps://core.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/10028#comment:4
https://core.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/10028#comment:4
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I've asked someone using a serendipity blog. Serendipity searches for the rdf-trackback inside the body of a post. Therefore, I don't think it will help if the data occurs in the header instead of the body.
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PS: I've tried to get subscribed to the hackers mailing list you mentioned for my issue 10029 but I didn't have success until now, with two different mail addresses. Am I too impatient or is it normal that the subscription may need more than almost a day? Thanks in advance for your answer.
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TicketDenis-de-BernardyThu, 04 Jun 2009 22:01:34 GMThttps://core.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/10028#comment:5
https://core.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/10028#comment:5
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Replying to <a class="closed" href="https://core.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/10028#comment:4" title="Comment 4 for Ticket #10028">utele</a>:
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I've asked someone using a serendipity blog. Serendipity searches for the rdf-trackback inside the body of a post. Therefore, I don't think it will help if the data occurs in the header instead of the body.
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Well, please be so kind to tell them that is very wrong. They should look into the &lt;head&gt; area too, since a least some themes add it in there due to the fact that some autodiscovery scripts only grab the first couple of lines of the file...
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PS: I've tried to get subscribed to the hackers mailing list you mentioned for my issue 10029 but I didn't have success until now, with two different mail addresses. Am I too impatient or is it normal that the subscription may need more than almost a day? Thanks in advance for your answer.
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There's a separate ticket on this -- it's yet to be fixed, best I'm aware. I don't read the hackers list regularly, myself, as the interesting stuff usually occurs during WP meet-ups over on irc.freenode.net, channel wordpress-dev.
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TicketDenis-de-BernardyThu, 04 Jun 2009 23:20:12 GMThttps://core.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/10028#comment:6
https://core.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/10028#comment:6
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see <a class="closed ticket" href="https://core.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/10010" title="defect (bug): Pings and Trackbacks are not working (closed: worksforme)">#10010</a>, <a class="closed ticket" href="https://core.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/10040" title="defect (bug): Trackbacks to Serendipity don't work out of the box (closed: duplicate)">#10040</a>
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TicketDenis-de-BernardyThu, 11 Jun 2009 13:38:44 GMTstatus changed; resolution set; milestone deletedhttps://core.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/10028#comment:7
https://core.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/10028#comment:7
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<li><strong>status</strong>
changed from <em>new</em> to <em>closed</em>
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<li><strong>resolution</strong>
set to <em>duplicate</em>
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<li><strong>milestone</strong>
<em>Future Release</em> deleted
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please use <a class="closed ticket" href="https://core.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/10028" title="defect (bug): Trackbacks from Serendipity don't work out of the box (closed: duplicate)">#10028</a>
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TicketDenis-de-BernardyThu, 11 Jun 2009 13:38:58 GMThttps://core.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/10028#comment:8
https://core.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/10028#comment:8
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err, <a class="closed ticket" href="https://core.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/10010" title="defect (bug): Pings and Trackbacks are not working (closed: worksforme)">#10010</a> even
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